Really apples and oranges comparison. But even so, if a certain App user is motivated to have the hostile App developer make a change that doesn't server their interest, they'll need to do better than cry "this app sucks".
It is apples and oranges, though. Because 1) apps are hardly a critical need for the populace and 2) software margins are even more difficult to find that "line" to than physical resources.
I'm sure that medicine needs some higher than average markup in order to make up for R&D, ingredients, and various regulations to get it approved for human patients. But very unlikely 1000%. And only 1000% because of questionable vertical integration that lets UHC charge UHC however much it wants to itself.
To be honest, I'm quite surprised you're siding with the provider here. Are you personally satisfied with healthcare pricing in the United States? Do you not share my intuition that in general, healthcare is too expensive and inefficient?
https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/healthplan-pr...
https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-pric...
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-23-illusion-of-transpar...
> Humana published their MRFs across 11,000,000 different files, then rate-limited how fast you could download them
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35347647
Maybe. The article also asserts their data, where available, is often also wrong. See the section titled "Cross checking with hospital data".